Green Egg BBQ
The Green Egg charcoal BBQ grill is a high-end way to really impress your family and friends outdoor on the porch. Just imagine the awesome summer nights you can have, grilling up some ribs and chicken barbeque-style on the world’s best outdoor grill. I really think it is one of the great things about the time when the warm air and light nights come in.
If you get one you will have the honor of cooking on a Green Egg BBQ grill that outdoes all of its competitors handily. The Large version will probably cost somewhere around $700, which is not much more than far lesser quality grills. How can they be offered at such low prices? Put simply, because this is all this company does. They have designed such a sweet smoker and cooker that they are able to keep costs down by only doing what they do best.
Buying the Green Egg Grill is probably best done by those who will use it pretty regularly, or those for whom money is not such a big issue. If you get one it would be a shame to not use it a couple times a week from late spring into early fall.
It is also a smoker and an oven, so it is very versatile to all your barbeque needs. Green Egg BBQ has a ceramic shell that encases everything you put in it, whether that be burgers, steaks, or even pizza. Yes, it can bake pizza.
Now, this BBQ uses lump charcoal. Since you may not be familiar with that, let me explain. It is a very pure and clean way to barbeque and cook. This particular type of charcoal is ground up by the manufacturers and then filled and bound in a certain way that allows it to basically “go further” than other charcoals. In terms of the Green Egg BBQ grill, it will give you a lot more time to cook the same thing.
Since the Green Egg Grill is a smoker, too, you should try to find some good wood to mix in with your charcoal. A lot of people don’t know that the flavor that comes from barbequing this way only half due to the wood flavor itself. It also comes from the juices which drip down onto the wood and then smoke back on up to it. Very fascinating!
There simply is no better, more affordable way to barbeque outside at home than with the Green Egg BBQ. It is the result of 35 years of innovation and refinement by just one company, and its ceramic siding is its true secret.
So everyone I urge you if you haven’t already to give this grill a little piece of your mind. Think about it. And if you do already have one and know what I’m talking about, then you may be ready to accessorize the Big Green Egg to further hone in your perfect and most delicious meats!
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Green Egg Grill Competitors
Let’s take a look at some of the grills which Green Egg shares their market space with in this article. I’m not even saying these cookers are better than the EGG but it can be interesting to see what else is out there.
One new player on the scene of the Green Egg Grill competitors is called the Bubba Keg. This thing definitely looks like it was designed to directly infringe on the success of our favorite, the Big Green Egg. It is shaped like, guess what, an egg. And it is being marketed in a wham-bam type way. I think maybe they’re going for the younger crowd judging from some of their ad campaigns.
The Bubba Keg is about thirty pounds lighter than the Green Egg Grill. Well I’ll have to give them some admiration for that one. All things equal, lighter is usually better. (As long as it doesn’t blow over in the wind.) They are obviously marketing to a cockier male: Their website gloats: “Become a legend in your own backyard.” I’m laughing out loud.
Bubba Keg is a convection grill. For some reason the company seems to be dually in the business of mugs and thermoses on the one hand, and grills on the other!? I don’t quite get that. Anyway, it’ll cost you something on the order of $600 to get one of these cookers. Can this really be considered one of the top Green Egg Grill competitors? Not really: it uses steel walls versus Green Egg’s ceramic, so it sounds like it’s just not quite as high quality and won’t give the outstanding results we’re used to with the EGG.
How about the Weber Kettle? This one should be a little more familiar to most readers. Although it’s really a smoking grill, it excels in some categories where maybe Green Egg Grill doesn’t. For instance, it is very mobile or portable, easy to move around and light-weight.
A Weber, and really all other grills, cannot get to the amazingly high temperatures that Green Egg Grill competitors would like to get to if they really want to compete with the king of smoker outdoor barbequing, etc. Maybe that is not what they’re trying to do. I hope not because they don’t stand a chance.
Some people do like other grills because of the previously noted mobility of them. They also claim they don’t have enough cooking space on the EGG but I don’t know about that one. Maybe if they’re on a diet, or focusing on small portions of healthy organic foods then the other grills will be OK.
As you can see, there are a couple pseudo Green Egg Hill competitors out there, but none of them are really challenging the space that the king began to carve out for himself back in the 1970’s. Put simply, they are inferior products when it comes to cooking at super-high temperatures and doing things that all the rest of the neighbors only wish they could do.
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